Sacramentarian
Americannoun
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a person who maintains that the Eucharistic elements have only symbolic significance and are not corporeal manifestations of Christ.
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(lowercase) a sacramentalist.
adjective
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of or relating to the Sacramentarians.
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(lowercase) of or relating to the sacraments.
noun
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any Protestant theologian, such as Zwingli, who maintained that the bread and wine of the Eucharist were the body and blood of Christ only in a figurative sense and denied His real presence in these elements
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one who believes in sacramentalism
adjective
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of or relating to Sacramentarians
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(not capital) of or relating to sacraments
Other Word Forms
- Sacramentarianism noun
- unsacramentarian adjective
Etymology
Origin of Sacramentarian
Example Sentences
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The Sacramentarian controversy, confined at first to Luther and Carlstadt, grew more embittered after Zwingli had espoused openly the side of the latter.
From History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 1 by MacCaffrey, James
Sacramentarian, a High Churchman who attaches a special sacred virtue to the sacraments of the Church.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
I am a poor Sacramentarian, and can hardly recollect what I have hitherto lived on, it was so bloody-desperate little.
From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich
He is held responsible for the Peasants' Revolt and the rise of the Sacramentarian sects.
From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)
In the Introduction to the Life an ecclesiastical friend distinguishes him from the partisan schools as a "Broad Church Sacramentarian."
From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer
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